Sachin Tendulkar Reveals Playing With Toe Injury During India's Tour Of Australia In 2011-12

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has revealed he had to manage the recurrence of a painful, decade-old toe injury during India's tour of Australia in 2011-12 which caused him a lot of trouble. Tendulkar had suffered a toe injury in the year 2000 and the same had resurfaced in the next year, which had kept him out of action for a tri-series in Sri Lanka with New Zealand being the third side. The batting legend recalled how the same affected him badly in the second half of India's tour of Australia in 2011-12, a series which the visiting side lost 0-4 to cede the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to the home side.

Having won the 50-over World Cup in April, it was the same period in which the Indian Test side had gone through one of its worst phases, having lost 0-4 in England earlier the same year.

"In the year 2000, I had a toe injury in South Africa following which I took injections as well. The same injury resurfaced after the 2011 World Cup. I don't even know; I did not do anything which would have put strain on it.

"In fact, I was in London for leave and I was going to join the (Indian) team there," Tendulkar told a large gathering of audience here on Friday evening during an event to launch a book titled 'Scintillating Sachin', and titled 'Shatkant Ekach' in Marathi.

Tendulkar, speaking in Marathi, informed that he was in so much pain and frustration that he found it very difficult to manage, and the local doctors suggested that he undergoes surgery.

"(In Australia) it was very painful and unbearable. I had used bandages, changed my insoles twice, and was just managing to play somehow. Most of the tour was over but my frustration was only increasing.

"The Australian grounds are hard, which was making it even more difficult. The